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Financial help

The Social Unit for Students

The Social Unit for Students grants various financial aids on the basis of specific criteria and according to your situation (nationality, assimilation, academic, family and financial):

• Reduction of registration fees, from 16/08 for the academic year 2022-2023;
• Loans, from 16/08 for the academic year 2022-2023;
• Non-refundable allowance: from 15/09 for the academic year 2022-2023;
• In the framework of the financing of a mobility project, students in the 2nd cycle (Master) can apply for an interest-free loan;
• Fight against digital poverty: donation or low-cost rental of computer equipment.

More information on the Social Unit (in French) here...

Project to fight against menstrual insecurity

The Social Unit, in collaboration with the students of the General Assembly of Students (AGE) and the project kots, is studying the issue of menstrual insecurity.  A survey will be launched in order to better understand this reality and to measure its degree and consequences. In some families, this issue is linked to precariousness in terms of physical and mental health, with little or no resources allocated to these needs. The results of the survey will make it possible to start prevention work and raise awareness of menstrual education, with, in the long term, free distribution of protection.

The Wynants-Sudan Fund

Attending higher education represents a significant investment for some families. Each year, UNamur provides financial support from its own funds to many students to help them with various aspects of their university life. This action will be strengthened in the coming years with the creation of the Paul and Olivia Wynants-Sudan Fund for student welfare.  

ARES CCD Calls: Travel Grant 2023

ARES offers students from UNamur the possibility to have a mobility experience in order to carry out either a first research experience (part or all of their dissertation/final work) or a work experience (internship) in an ARES scholarship partner country.  Information is available on the current calls interface (intranet). These calls are managed by the International Relations Department. 

Institutional call

Co-financing of 2 interdisciplinary PhD theses for researchers from the South with Institutes.  Information is available on the current calls interface (intranet).

Center for Research in the Economics of Development (CRED)

Within the Institute of Development Finance & Public Policies (DeFiPP), the Centre de Recherche en Economie du Développement (CRED) is a research unit dedicated to the study of development economics. More specifically, researchers work on issues related to micro-institutions, collective action, market development and political economy. Much of the research conducted at CRED is based on first-hand data collected by researchers in many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. More about CRED...

As an NGO within a university, the University Forum for International Development Cooperation (FUCID) aims to be a place of meeting, expression, debate, advocacy, awareness and commitment, action, militancy and utopia. A network of men and women sharing the same values of solidarity and citizenship.  It is rooted in the vision of UNamur and in this framework participates in the overall objective of the university, namely to train responsible actors in society for a more just, sustainable and equitable world, with respect for human rights. More information (in French) ...

Teaching assignments in universities in the South
Adrien Bauchau Fund

The Adrien Bauchau Fund provides financial support for training and development missions. These are teaching missions from various Belgian institutions (UNamur, ULiège, UMH, HEC,...) to institutions in the South (ISP Bukavu DRC, Univ. Yaoundé and Buea in Cameroon...).

Support for success

MOOC - Aiming for success

On 17 October 2022, UNamur is offering a new session of this free MOOC (online course) to prepare students for higher education and improve their study methods.  Read more (in French)...

Tutoring in veterinary medicine

Students can benefit from the personalised assistance of a student who has received specific training in tutoring and who acts under the supervision of the department's pedagogical coordinator.

Tutoring in Law

Students can benefit from the personalised assistance of a student from the second or third year block who has received specific training in tutoring and who acts under the supervision of the Faculty's pedagogical coordinator. 

Participation in policy making at local, regional, national and/or international levels to implement programmes and policies against poverty

UNamur, like the 5 other universities of the Walloon-Brussels Federation (FWB), is present in various commissions within ARES:

• CAR | Commission in support for success
• CCD | Commission for Development Cooperation
• CESI | Commission for Inclusive Higher Education
• COFOC | Commission for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
• COM | Commission on Student and Staff Mobility
• COVEDAS | Commission for Student Life, Democratisation and Social Affairs
• CRI | International Relations Commission